There is a very small restaurant - 32 seats - in the Sunnyland neighborhood called Home Skillet. It serves breakfast and lunch. NWCitizen writers have met there many times for breakfast and to discuss local politics and articles-in-progress. The food is excellent, the staff just sassy enough to keep you alert and yet provide superb service. Dining there the first time is a fun experience. Weekends are over-crowded. All in all, one of those fine little businesses that help make Bellingham and Whatcom County nice places to live.

Today's online Bellingham Business Journal has a lengthy and wonderful article about Home Skillet, with several photos. It tells us about the special experiences and training the owners went through before starting the restaurant. They were cooks in one of the most unique places in the world with a very demanding clientele. I know, as my late brother, local dentist "painless Bill," was one of them. 

The Bellingham Business Journal provides daily local business news. I check it each morning and find they often have news before the Herald. The Herald business reporter, Dave Gallagher, worked there before being recruited to the Herald. Readers benefit from the competition between the Herald and Business Journal. There is a new link in the right side "Links" column that will direct you to the Business Journal. Of course, the link to the Herald has been there for many years now.